China-born filmmaker Chloe Zhao, who told the story of financially stretched van dwellers in the U.S. recession-era tale “Nomadland,” on Sunday became the first Asian woman and second woman ever to win best director at the Academy Awards.for Zhao, 39, who featured real-life nomads alongside actress Frances McDormand to show the lives of older Americans who travel from job to job trying to scrape together a living.
Hong Kong TV audiences were also unable to watch in real time because free-to-air broadcaster TVB declined to air the Academy Awards for the first time in more than 50 years. TVB, which has broadcast theThe decision not to air thes has raised concerns about dwindling freedoms in Hong Kong, which has taken an authoritarian path since China imposed a sweeping national security law last year in response to the financial hub’s pro-democracy protests of 2019.
“I still truly believe them today,” Zhou said of the letters in the poem. “Even though sometimes they might seem like the opposite is true, but I have always found goodness in the people I met everywhere I went in the world.”